What is the historical reason for this term?
Derivative represents slope function of curve. I am not getting why this term make sense?
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For "integral", see the linked post. Derivative is from the French term fonction dérivéee, due to Lagrange. See Théorie des fonctions analytiques (1797), page 17. – Mauro ALLEGRANZA Apr 10 '19 at 11:44
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Terms have often starnhe history : differentiation and integration was modern term (originating from Leibniz and its school) for the two fundamental processes of calculus. – Mauro ALLEGRANZA Apr 10 '19 at 11:54
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Only a half-duplicate. The question to which it links does not provide much information on the etymology of "derivative". – Rodrigo de Azevedo Apr 11 '19 at 06:06
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2I have edited it. – Apr 11 '19 at 06:37